✧For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me. ✧2Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me. ✧3What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee. ✧4In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me? ✧5All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil. ✧6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul. ✧7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. ✧8Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book? ✧9Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me. ✧10In God (I will praise [his] word), In Jehovah (I will praise [his] word), ✧11In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me? ✧12Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee. ✧13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [Hast thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?